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Giant roadside rock to remain on Colorado mountain highway as landmark
UPI ^
| 05 June 2019
| By Jean Lotus
Posted on 06/06/2019 12:52:58 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Vaquero
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:16:06 PM PDT
by
L,TOWM
(An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
To: arthurus
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:17:26 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
We are such an ‘advanced’ civilization that we find we don’t know how to easily remove such a large rock, yet ancient civilizations found it no problem to move thousands of them ,which were even larger, many miles.
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:18:44 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Red Badger
Cost to build highway around rock: $1.3 MILLION
Cost to break up rock & haul away: $200,000...
Spend 6.5 times to build new road & that is an advantage?
I guess my bookkeeping skills would have said NO WAY we are building new road.
Politicians keep spending taxpayer $$$$ with no restraint at all.
To: Red Badger
It’s nothing a little tactical nuke couldn’t handle. How close did they say the nearest town is?
To: arthurus
Perhaps they should move it to see who is flat under there.
"So that's where that bus full of children went!"
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:23:02 PM PDT
by
fr_freak
To: ridesthemiles
The money comes from the Federal Government, IOW, US!
So the cost to Colorado taxpayers is minimal...............
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:24:10 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: ridesthemiles
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that it is not a good idea to spend $1.3 million to save $200,000.
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:24:45 PM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: Red Badger
Save the taxpayers money.......... Yeah right
Blow up boulder 200K
Rerout highway 1.3 M
So for another 1.1 M we don’t have to our jobs.
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:25:35 PM PDT
by
Keyhopper
(Indians had bad immigration laws)
To: VastRWCon
“It would have cost the Colorado Department of Transportation $200,000 to blow up the boulder with dynamite and haul it away...
...Fixing the two-lane highway will cost about $1.3 million, Polis said, but most of that money will come from emergency funds from the Federal Highway Administration.”
Not sure how that is a good decision. $200K versus $1.3 million.
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:30:11 PM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
(Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: Red Badger
Good thing to sit on top of and eat some edibles?
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:55:05 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: b4its2late
It’s Colorado, so Rocky Mountain high............
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:55:47 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
yes, let’s save $200,000 by building a $1.3 million road around it!
That’s good governmenting!
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:56:49 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
To: Red Badger
You got that right! Went to an NFL game out there last year and they were giving away edibles in the parking lot!
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posted on
06/06/2019 1:57:08 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: ridesthemiles
Just paint a Tunnel Entrance on each side like the Coyote did in all those Roadrunner Cartoons.
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posted on
06/06/2019 2:02:21 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
To: Red Badger
Thanks for the post Red Badger...
What is missing is what kind of rock is this... Igneous, basalt or granite; Sedimentary... shale, or ?. If sedimentary, what is name of formation that it came from?
If this huge boulder weathered out, there are probably others waiting for their opportunity to roll down the mountain.
I am glad that there was no traffic on the hwy when this guy came rolling by.
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posted on
06/06/2019 2:08:54 PM PDT
by
LaMudBug
To: Red Badger
The democnicrats will politicize anything.
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posted on
06/06/2019 2:18:18 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: arthurus
Probably an associate of the Clintons.
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posted on
06/06/2019 2:18:54 PM PDT
by
Major Matt Mason
(Will the Democrats now accept the results of the 2016 election?)
To: Red Badger
Thanks for posting this. I’m renting a car and driving to Delores in 10 days to see family. I’ll have to check to see if Highway 145 can be avoided.
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posted on
06/06/2019 2:29:14 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
To: Red Badger
A 8.5-million- pound boulder
More impressive than the boulder would be the scale they weighed it on.
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posted on
06/06/2019 2:34:23 PM PDT
by
Nachoman
(Following victory, its best to reload.)
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